Best Linux Distributions

Welcome to the Linux Distros page where we catalog the latest versions of your favorite Linux distributions, highlight their latest features, direct you to the download page, and include installation guides where necessary or as requested.

The Linux Distros page is a Live page because we will continually update its content as the below-listed distros release major versions. In other words, simply stay tuned!

I have used neofetch – a command-line utility to display operating system, software and hardware information in the screenshots of each Linux distribution.

Last Updated On: 29th November 2019

RHEL 8

RHEL stands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and it is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform from which businesses can scale existing applications as well as roll out developing technologies for any type of environment especially the cloud.

Its latest version is RHEL 8.2 and it ships with a ton of changes including cockpit web console performance and feature updates, System Purpose and a unified ISO support by Anaconda, LUKS2 disk encryption format support, 5-level paging, and tables support, RPM updates, BIND updates, etc.

RHEL is not free but you can try it for free, but it, or talk to a Red Hatter using the links provided in the official website.

CentOS 8

CentOS is a community-driven project focused on delivering a free and robust open-source Operating Systems in 2 versions, CentOS Linux – a consistent and manageable platform that suits a variety of deployments, and the new CentOS Stream – a rolling-release distro that derives virtually all of its features from RHEL and Fedora Linux.

The latest versions of CentOS are available as CentOS 8 and CentOS 8-Stream and some of the new features that they house include changes in several major areas including virtualization, security details, installation and image creation, infrastructure services, Cockpit web console, and networking.

Fedora 32

Fedora is a well-polished free and open-source Operating System built for laptops and servers to be powerful, flexible, and reliable when given any task. It is supported by several companies, especially Red Hat. It was first released on November 6th, 2003 and has since been known for making innovative moves in cloud and container development.

Its latest workstation version comes with a handful of exciting features and to mention a few they include:

GNOME 3.34 desktop

Updated packages: Python 3, NodeJS 12, Glibc 2.30.

Improved support for Rock64 and RockPro 64, among other SoC chips.

Updated hardware support.

Docker has been replaced by upstream package moby-engine.

32-bit support dropped.

Interested in downloading Fedora 32? Grab it from the official download link here: Download Fedora 32.

Fedora Linux Distribution

Debian 10 Buster

Debian is a free and 100% open-source Operating System that comes with over 59000 packages and precompiled software bundled up into an easy-to-install format on virtually any machine. If you don’t know anything about Debian your single takeaway can be that it is the distro that Ubuntu is based on; and it has been doing wonders in the open-source community since its first release in September 1993.

The latest version was released on July 6th, 2019 after 25 months of development. It is codenamed “Buster” and it ships with several desktop environments for users to choose from namely Cinnamon 3.8, GNOME 3.30, KDE Plasma 5.14, LXDE 0.99.2, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20, and Xfce 4.12.

This is a Long Term Support version that will be supported for the next 5 years and it includes tons of changes, bug fixes, and system improvements including:

Wayland is the default display server.

AppArmor enabled by default.

Network filtering based on nftables framework by default.

Improved UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) support.

Cups and cups-filters enabled by default.

Apache 2.4.38, Chromium 73.0, GnuPG 2.2, OpenJDK 11, etc.

Debian is available free of charge and you can download your preferred version of Debian from here: Download Debian 10.

Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

Ubuntu is a free and open-source Debian-based Linux Operating System popular for its simple beautiful design, customization features, and ease of use. It is developed by Canonical in different versions colloquially referred to as flavors e.g. Xubuntu and Kubuntu, on a strong open-source philosophy and has since become the most popular Linux distro in the market today dominating up to 26.82% of OS market share.

The latest version of Ubuntu is 20.04 codenamed Focal Fossa and its major features include:

Toolchain upgrades

Linux kernel 5.4

Security improvements

GNOME 3.6

ZFS on root

Updated apps: LibreOffice 6.4, Thunderbird 68, Firefox 75

PulseAudio 14.0

Ubuntu is available free of charge and you can download your preferred version of Ubuntu from here: Download Ubuntu 20.04.

Linux Mint 19 Tara

Linux Mint is a Debian and Ubuntu-based community-driven distro built with a focus on powerful, elegant, and easy-to-use computing. Right out of the box it ships with complete multimedia support among several free and open-source applications.

It is available in 3 main editions, MATE, Xfce, and Cinnamon, boasts of several community-driven and Debian editions, and has since become to be among the most loved Linux distros since its first release by French IT specialist, Clement Lefebvre in 2006.

Its latest version is in the form of Linux Mint 19.2 is codenamed Tara and it is filled with major fixes and new features including:

Manjaro Linux 20

Manjaro Linux is a free, open-source Arch-based Linux distro popular for its beauty, reliability, and above all, simplification of the very technical Arch Linux Operating System. It ships with the lightweight Xfce desktop environment which enables it to run fast on even low resource systems, but it also has KDE and Gnome editions, as well as 32-bit community-maintained editions.

The latest version of Manjaro Linux is 18.1.0 codenamed Juhraya, was released on September 12, 2019, and its major features include:

Kali Linux 2020

Kali Linux is a Debian-based distro developed and maintained specifically for advanced Penetration Testing and Security by one of the world’s leading information security training companies, Offensive Security.

Commonly referred to as the perfect OS for hackers, it is a complete rebuild of BackTrack Linux and completely complies with Debian development standards since its first release on 13th March 2013. Right out of the box it ships with a butt load of tools geared towards Information management, Computer Forensics, Reverse Engineering, and Security research, among other tasks.

The latest version is Kali Linux 2020.1a and its new features include:

openSUSE

openSUSE is among the most loved distros by system administrators, developers, and even several Linux newbies. Endowed with an activity community known for building virtually everything in-house, openSUSE is unlikely to lack any system requirements that you desire.

It is available in 2 versions, Tumbleweed – a rolling release version which is always updated with the latest improvements, bug fixes, and new features, and Leap – a regular-release version that gets updated periodically.

If you run Tumbleweed then you’re already running the latest version with updated software. The latest version of Leap is 15.1 and you can choose to do a fresh installation of either distro model.

OpenSuse Linux Distribution

Arch Linux

Arch Linux is a free and open-source distribution for x86 – 64-based architectures. Being a rolling release, it constantly gets updated in the background with fixes and new features without the need for a system reboot. Arch Linux is loved for its stability, reliability, Wiki, AUR, package manager, and welcoming community.

Its latest release 2020.05.01 was made public on May 1, 2020,, and if you already have it installed then you have its latest features and fixes. If you aren’t, you can download the latest version from here: Download Arch Linux 2020.